Lorenzo - are we confusing health education with health promotion? Tone's
defintion of health promotion is that it incorporates all measures
deliberately designed to promote health and handle disease. If this is the
case the things like Hearing Conservation programmes are 'health promotion'
and can be looked at from a macro, meso and micro level: macro -
international recommedations/ national - e.g. UK law & HSE guidelines; meso
- local level such as noise reduction at local government level; PCT level
and then micro - what is actually being done within individual companies
from a control first and then from a health surveillance level. So there ar
emany exmaples of work being done in OH that is 'health promotion'!
I think there is so much on this topic - try looking at the DOH public
health web site for what is being done at a national level. There are loads
of journals on HP and I could go on................
Greta
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From: Visentin Lorenzo [log in to unmask]
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:34:05 -0000
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: : Health Promotion
Penny,
This is one of those topics everyone believes is "right to do", I'm unsure
what effective means - but if you try to pin down a cost:benefit
relationship, it becomes less easy. A good starting point might be (sorry
it's US based), The Institute for Health and Productivity Management
www.ihpm.org <http://www.ihpm.org/> which was created in 1997 to make
employee health an investment in corporate success through enhanced
workplace performance.
>From my perspective, when I have worked in a male dominated workforce, the
interface between health providers and the individual is almost non-existent
- they have no reason to visit a GP unless ill. This precludes all the
'chance' health promotion that occurs when you sit in waiting rooms gazing
(for inspiration) at the piles of leaflets etc... For this reason, my
employer always saw this ad hoc health promoting as beneficial - more on the
'off chance' that someone would listen, rather than a structured programme.
Conversely, when working for a retail high street employer (high percentage
female population), work based health promoting activities - in particular -
diet clubs were not only successful (measured in weight loss) but also in
income generating for the OH team.
best wishes
Lorenzo Visentin
BSc(Hons), RN, SPOHN, MIOSH, RSP, MIIRSM
Principal Occ Health & Safety Officer
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
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From: Penny Fuller [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 19 January 2003 18:31
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: : Health Promotion
For my dissertation i'm looking at the relevance of health promotion in the
work place.
I'm interested in occupational health and health intervention and whether
health promotion is effective in the workplace and whether anyone has
implemented their own programme.
At present current practice is advocating the workplace a being an ideal
opportunity to implement health promotion, however is it cost effective and
how does the employer identify with this.
Grateful for any information relating to this topic.
Penny Fuller
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